Stephan Haggard is Distinguished Research Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego and Research Director for Democracy and Global Governance at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. His recent work on East Asia includes Developmental States and (with Marcus Noland) Hard Target: Sanctions, Inducements and the Case of North Korea. David C. Kang is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California and director of the USC Korean Studies Institute. He is the author of East Asia Before the West and co-author, with Xinru Ma, of Beyond Power Transitions. He is the co-editor with Stephan Haggard of East Asia in the World: Twelve Events that Shaped the Modern International Order.

'Haggard and Kang have done it again: this is an outstanding collection of essays that puts international relations theory into sustained conversation with the historical experience of Pacific Asia from the eve of the First World War to the Cold War. The impressive scholarship in this volume places Asia's experiences at the center of international history, and scholars of international relations will benefit from the careful, insightful contributions by regional experts and IR theorists alike.' Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University

• Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction: East Asia in the world: from imperialism to the cold war Stephan Haggard and David Kang; 2. The myth of the San Francisco system: understanding post-World War II East Asian order Evelyn Goh; Part II. The Imperial Era: 3. Survival through reforms: Siam and its escape from colonialism Pongkwan Sawasdipakdi; 4. The Russo-Japanese war, 1904–5 Scott Wolford; 5. The Chinese exclusion acts Enze Han, D. G. Kim; 6. Race and great power politics: the Japanese racial equality proposal of 1919 Erez Manela; Part III. To the Pacific War: 7. Reform, revolution, and state failure in early twentieth century China Richard Horowitz; 8. The second Sino-Japanese war and its aftermath, 1931–1965 Amy King; 9. Japanese expansionism and the 'greater east Asia co-prosperity sphere Jeremy Yellen; Part IV. The High Cold War in Asia: 10. Decentering the cold war from the division of Korea David Fields; 11. The first and second Taiwan straits crises Hsiao-ting Lin; 12. Alliances, state-building, and development in Asia James Lee; 13. Credibility and the Vietnam war in the era of incomplete US hegemony Khong Yuen Foong; 14. Nationalism and Anglo-American neo-colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1945–1965 Ngoei Wen-Qing; 15. Mandates, trusteeship, and decolonization in the North Pacific: balancing self-determination, development, and security Joanne Wallis, Jack Corbett; Part V. Conclusion: 16. Conclusion: a newly-dynamic East Asian international order Andrew Coe and Scott Wolford; Bibliography; Index.

Stephan Haggard is Distinguished Research Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego and Research Director for Democracy and Global Governance at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. His recent work on East Asia includes Developmental States and (with Marcus Noland) Hard Target: Sanctions, Inducements and the Case of North Korea. David C. Kang is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California and director of the USC Korean Studies Institute. He is the author of East Asia Before the West and co-author, with Xinru Ma, of Beyond Power Transitions. He is the co-editor with Stephan Haggard of East Asia in the World: Twelve Events that Shaped the Modern International Order.

'Haggard and Kang have done it again: this is an outstanding collection of essays that puts international relations theory into sustained conversation with the historical experience of Pacific Asia from the eve of the First World War to the Cold War. The impressive scholarship in this volume places Asia's experiences at the center of international history, and scholars of international relations will benefit from the careful, insightful contributions by regional experts and IR theorists alike.' Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University

• Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction: East Asia in the world: from imperialism to the cold war Stephan Haggard and David Kang; 2. The myth of the San Francisco system: understanding post-World War II East Asian order Evelyn Goh; Part II. The Imperial Era: 3. Survival through reforms: Siam and its escape from colonialism Pongkwan Sawasdipakdi; 4. The Russo-Japanese war, 1904–5 Scott Wolford; 5. The Chinese exclusion acts Enze Han, D. G. Kim; 6. Race and great power politics: the Japanese racial equality proposal of 1919 Erez Manela; Part III. To the Pacific War: 7. Reform, revolution, and state failure in early twentieth century China Richard Horowitz; 8. The second Sino-Japanese war and its aftermath, 1931–1965 Amy King; 9. Japanese expansionism and the 'greater east Asia co-prosperity sphere Jeremy Yellen; Part IV. The High Cold War in Asia: 10. Decentering the cold war from the division of Korea David Fields; 11. The first and second Taiwan straits crises Hsiao-ting Lin; 12. Alliances, state-building, and development in Asia James Lee; 13. Credibility and the Vietnam war in the era of incomplete US hegemony Khong Yuen Foong; 14. Nationalism and Anglo-American neo-colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1945–1965 Ngoei Wen-Qing; 15. Mandates, trusteeship, and decolonization in the North Pacific: balancing self-determination, development, and security Joanne Wallis, Jack Corbett; Part V. Conclusion: 16. Conclusion: a newly-dynamic East Asian international order Andrew Coe and Scott Wolford; Bibliography; Index.